The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-04-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

In India there are four female mission
aries to every million of women.
DIAMONDS are found in two Georgia coun'
ties and gold in tifty-six counties
A WELL 5000 feet deep is to be bored IL
the City OF Mexico in search of Oil.
ALL the railroads are looking sharp tc
their bridges. It's good investment.
A NEwBuRe IN. " maiden chewed toe
much gum and lost control of her jaw.
SALT is selling for ffty-one cents a barrel
in Michigan, with the barrel thrown in.
The best modern siege guns cost s97, 900,
and it costs 500 to shoot one of them only
once.
A PHYSICIAN sits at the bedside of En-
peror William watching while the mon
arch sleeps.
BALTIMORE is now supplied with illumin-
ating gas at thirty-fve cents per one thou
sand cubic feet.
THE Beecher farm at Peekskill, now Of
fered for sale, is valued at $1,000 The
house cost $4,000.
The Illinois Legislature has passed a
bill reducing legal fares from three cents
mile to two cents.
THE German Reichstag has adjourned
for the Easter holidays, and will resume
its sittings April 10.
GEO. w. CHILDs will present to the West
Point Military Academy lifc-size paint
ing of General Grant.
THE State of Iowa has just built herself
new capitol and has done it within the
original appropriation.
GERMAN entomologist declares that
spiders destroy more insect enemies than
do all insect-cating birds.
The Empress Eugenie is said to be con-
femplating tour through the United
States, travelling incognito.
DANvILLE, VA, has caught the BOOM
She is building street railroads, water
works and laying off parks.
THE New York Legislature is asked to
pass bill making it misdemeanor to
jump off the Brooklyn bridge
A LAW has just been enacted in Con-
necticut prohibiting railway travel be-
tween a. m. and 8 p. m on Sundays.
A MEETING of Hebrews held in Brooklyn
recently contributed s2059 for the monu-
ment to the late Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher.
THE Louisville Couric,-Journal thinks the
Car of Russia would be happier man as
the agent of some durable clothes
wringer.
y
is an applicant for divorce in an Omaha
court on the ground of cruelty and failure
to support
A BILL which has passed the Connecticut
Legislature, provides that cider which has
commenced fermentation shall be subject
to the license law.
THE death rate in New York is now said
to be dwindled to seven hundred week.
To bury this number the city has one thou
sand undcrtakers.
The Puritant rose, the latest production
of the queen of flowers, has a compact
blossom, is of delicate creamy white, and
will last for days.
The latest advices from the volcano of
Mauna Loa are that the flow of lava which
was recently upheaved from the mid-ocean
furnace had ceased.
A WRITER of vigorous American prose
describes school girl out in the cold
world las minnow among school of
saw-toothed pickerel."
THE Chinese are said to manufacture an
annsthetic not unlike cocaine in its action
and claim that the anesthetic property is
the juice of the eye of the frog.
OSCAR 8. SrRoUs, the newly-appointed
Minister to Turkey, is a native of Georgia
He was born in Talbotton and resided
there until he was eleven years old.
JOHN WANNAMAKER, the Philadclphi
merchant, carries life insurance of $780,
600. j. b. Stetson, of the same city, has
$4,000, and Hamilton Disston 500, 1000.
WHEN John Mackay travels by rail he is
always accompanied by telegraph opera
tor with portable telegraph instrument
for sending dispatches in ease of necessity.
Of
shop has been arrested and held for trial
in New York court, the evident intent
being to settle the legal status of his "busi-
ness"
GLASGOW merchant asked Queen Vic
toria to accept a jubilee gift of cheese
weighing five tons and made from the
milk of $500 Canadian cows but she de-
clined.
KwoH HAo, the young Emperor of China,
who has been declared ''of agen at sixteen,
has assumed the full reins of government.
His name signifies Continuation of
Glory"
SEVERAL books of county records in
Iowa, which had long been missing, were
recently found in Davenport saloon,
where they had been pawned for liquor by
a former official.
OVER So, ,OO0, 900 has been contributed to
the colleges of this country by twenty
men. Three of these twenty-Stephen
Girard, Johns Hopkins and Asa Packer
gave over $l4,0O0,OO0.
THE State Department is much exercised
over the premature publication of the Ex-
tradition Treaty with Russia, and efforts
will be made to discover the methods by
which it was made public.
SIDNEY BARTLETT one of Boston's best
known lawyers, is eighty-eight years old,
yet his bodily strength is little impaired,
and he is, said never to have exhibited
greater intellectual vigor than in recent
argument in an important case that he
was conducting.
EMPEROR WILLIAM planted chestnut
tree in the palace garden on his birthday.
To MEET the growing scarcity of whale
bone and its consequent increased cost.
various substitutes have been brought for
ward; among the most recent is the en-
ployment of geese and turkeys quills, q
factory for this kind of manufacture hav-
ing been established IN Michigan.
CAPTAIN NATHAN APPLETON is credited
with the suggestion that the people of the
United States of America should present
To the city OF Paris a statue Of Washing
ton, in return for that of Lafayette, pre-
sented to the city of New York by the
people Of France in 1876. Now is the time
for New York to subscribe!
The richest colored woman in America is
Amanda Eubanks, of Rome Ga who navs